Paper By Julian Oliver outlining strategies for sustainable Independent Game Development within what is otherwise a mass-market Entertainment Industry. http://www.selectparks.net/die.html
A list of conferences and events of interest to game researchers and developers. Linked, annotated and chronologically ordered.
http://www.igda.org/events/
National conference held at MIT in 2000. Full transcripts of sessions on games as interactive storytelling, aesthetics, and game design.
http://web.mit.edu/cms/games